The Philippines' JG Summit Petrochemical plans to start production at its new aromatics plant at Batangas by late 2019 or early 2020, company officials said late Wednesday.
The plant, which is being built in conjunction with the expansion of the group's naphtha-fed steam cracker, is expected to have a production capacity of 126,000 mt/year of benzene, 76,000 mt/year of toluene, 46,000 mt/year of solvent-grade mixed xylenes, 18,000 mt/year of C8+C9+, and 29,000 mt/year of non-aromatic products.
JG Summit's naphtha-fed steam cracker at Batangas can produce 320,000 mt/year of ethylene, 190,000 mt/year of propylene, 216,000 mt/year of pyrolysis gasoline, and 110,000 mt/year of mixed C4.
The expansion is slated to increase the capacity to produce ethylene by 160,002 mt/year, propylene by 51,000 mt/year, mixed C4 by 26,418 mt/year, and pyrolysis gasoline by 78,876 mt/year, S&P Global Platts reported earlier.
